tree creeper

tree creeper

n

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any small songbird of the family Certhiidae of the N hemisphere, having a brown-and-white plumage and slender downward-curving bill. They creep up trees to feed on insects

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Noun	1.	tree creeper - any of various small insectivorous birds of the northern hemisphere that climb up a tree trunk supporting themselves on stiff tail feathers and their feet creeper oscine, oscine bird - passerine bird having specialized vocal apparatus Certhiidae, family Certhiidae - creepers American creeper, brown creeper, Certhia americana - a common creeper in North America with a down-curved bill Certhia familiaris, European creeper - common European brown-and-buff tree creeper with down-curved bill Tichodroma muriaria, tichodrome, wall creeper - crimson-and-grey songbird that inhabits town walls and mountain cliffs of southern Eurasia and northern Africa
	2.	tree creeper - any of numerous South American and Central American birds with a curved bill and stiffened tail feathers that climb and feed like woodpeckers wood-creeper, woodcreeper, woodhewer tyrannid - a passerine bird of the suborder Tyranni Dendrocolaptidae, family Dendrocolaptidae - woodhewers or woodcreepers